Check in – New Years Resolutions
In December last year I posted “7 new years backup resolutions for companies”. Since it’s the end of January 2012,…
Category: Backup theory
Data Awareness Distribution in the Enterprise
Continuing on my post relating to dark data last week, I want to spend a little more about data awareness classification…
Dark Data
We’ve all heard the term Big Data – it’s something the vendors have been ramming down our throats with the same…
Why backup theory is important
Obviously the NetWorker Blog gets a lot of referrals from search engines via people looking specifically for help on particular…
7 New Years Backup Resolutions for Companies
I’d like to suggest that companies be prepared to make (and keep!) 7 new years resolutions when it comes to…
The top ten for 2011
It’s that time of the year where I sit back for a moment and look at what articles have attracted…
Trial podcast
For some time I’ve been debating whether to generate podcasts for the NetWorker blog. Rather than continue to vacillate, I’ve…
Metrics you can depend on
When I discuss backup and recovery success metrics with customers, the question that keeps coming up is “what are desirable…
Don’t eliminate the error
Long-term blog readers will know that I advocate a zero error policy within backup environments. This is elucidated in my…
Ongoing trends with tape
When I first started in backup and recovery, my primary backup medium was DDS-1 tapes, distributed across probably 15 servers…